Category Archives: Leadership

Although the origins of this quote are uncertain, I find its clarity pleasing and it is a good summary of the seventh metalogue, discussing instinct: “A bird does not sing because he has an Continue Reading →

In this first, simple, metalogue (written in 1948) Gregory Bateson imagines a conversation between a daughter and her father. “Why,” the daughter wants to know, “do things get in a muddle?” Continue Reading →